If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do. . . HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.
. . . reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products, and we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.
Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.